Health

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Nearly half of migrant workers living in dormitories have had a Covid-19 infection, authorities said on Monday (December 14). As of Sunday, 54,505 of these workers tested positive for the virus using a polymerase chain reaction or PCR test. Another 98,289 had a positive result of a …

[ad_1] ROME: At the end of November, the doctor Maurizio Cappiello visited more than 130 patients in the emergency room of the Cardarelli hospital, in the city of Naples, in southern Italy. More than two-thirds had COVID-19. The virus, which was mainly confined to Italy’s industrial north during the first …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Monday’s press conference by the multi-ministerial working group on Covid-19 saw a series of questions about Singapore’s planned vaccination launch. Clara Chong reports on some of the highlights. Q: Why is the vaccination program voluntary and not mandatory? How does the government hope to encourage greater public …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Monday’s press conference by the multi-ministerial working group on Covid-19 saw a series of questions about Singapore’s planned vaccination launch. Clara Chong reports on some of the highlights. Q: Why is the vaccination program voluntary and not mandatory? How does the government hope to encourage greater public …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: A new type of public housing with elderly-friendly features and subscription to care services would be an effective way to meet the different needs of the elderly under one roof, experts told CNA on Monday (December 14) . It was announced last week that the Housing and Development …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Even before Singapore’s first Covid-19 case was reported on January 23, the local research community was moving rapidly to pivot towards Covid-19 investigation, developing a response on all fronts: from the manufacture of test swabs to the construction of the Singapore test arsenal. This was possible only …

[ad_1] GENEVA / LONDON (REUTERS) – The World Health Organization is aware of a new variant of Covid-19 that has emerged in Britain, but there is no evidence that the strain behaves differently from existing types of the virus he said on Monday (December 14). ). “We are aware of …

[ad_1] RIO DE JANEIRO: President Jair Bolsonaro faced harsh criticism on Sunday (December 13) for his government’s plan, or lack of it, opponents said, to vaccinate the population against COVID-19 in Brazil, the country. with the second highest death toll worldwide. Brazil published its vaccination plan on Saturday with notable …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Cargo planes and trucks with the first U.S. shipments of coronavirus vaccine were deployed from FedEx and UPS centers in Tennessee and Kentucky on Sunday (December 13) en route to distribution points across the country, launching an immunization project of unprecedented scope and complexity. Vaccines, seen as critical …

[ad_1] NEW YORK: New York on Monday (December 14) inoculated its first healthcare worker, a nurse from the intensive care unit in Queens, with the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, marking a fundamental turn in the US effort to control deadly virus. Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse, received the vaccine …